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^EW-HAVEX, (Conn.) 
GRAY &i HEWIT, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS. 

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JANDARY, 1322. 



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DISTRICT OF CONXECTJCUT..,.^. 

^E IT REMEMBERED, That on the fifth day of Jan- 
-^ uary, in the forty-sixth vear of the Independence of 
I the United States of America, GRAY &, HEWIT, of 
the said distVict, hath deposited in this Office the Title 
of a Book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words 
following : to wit — 

" Proceedings of the City of jVew-Haven, in the Removal of Monu- 
ments from its .^cient Burying- Ground, and in the Opening of w 
JVeiv Ground for Burial." 

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, en- 
titled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the 
copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of 
such copies, during the times therein riientioned." 

C^A. INGERSOLL, 

Clerk of the District of Connecticut. 

A true Copy of Record, examined and sealed by me, 
C. A. INGERSOLL, 

Clerk of the District of Connecticut 






THE proceedings of the Citv of New-Haven, in the removiii 
<i[ Monuments from its Ancient Burying-Ground, and in the open- 
ing of a New Ground for burial, are published, as evidence to the 
living and to future generations, that this solemn subject has beou 
approached and managed with great deliberation. 

We present, 

1st. — The Votes of the Common Council, <tnd of the Cilij. 

^d. — The Religious Service immediately preceding the Removal. 

?jd. — The Report of the Committee superintending. the Removal. 

4:th. — The JS/ames of those whose Monuments are under the Cenirt 
Church. 

5th. — The JVames of those whose Monuments were removed. 

Gth. — .4 Plan of the JS/'ew Burying-Ground. 

7th. — The J^ames of first Purchasers of Family Lots. 

Zth. — Inscription on the General Monument in rear nf ike Ccnif" 
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NEW-HAYEN BURYINGGROUNI). 



VOTE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL. 

^iT a Court of Common Council for the City of JVw-Haven, 

held in said city, on the lllh day of October, 1820 : 
WHEREAS, it is important that the ancient Burying-Ground 
in this city should be inclosed, or that some other course 
in respect to the same should be adopted, which may 
evince our respect for the dead, and for the feelings of sur- 
vivors : 

Voted, That Abraham Bishop, Esq. Deacon Levi Ives, 
Deacon Samuel Darling, Isaac Gilbert, Esq. Rev. Wm. 
Thacher, Mr. Wm. Baldwin, and Mr. Rutherford Trow- 
bridge, be a Committee on this subject, to report facts and 
their opinion at another meeting. 

A true Copy of Record. Certified by 

ELISHA MUNSON, Cleric. 

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ADDRESS OF THE C03iMITTEE. 

To the Citizens of New-Haven. 

THE time has come, when something must be'done on the 
above subject. Strangers who visit our town, express their 
surprise that our ancient Burying-Ground is wholly neglect- 
ed, while everything relating to our own dwellings, our pub- 
lic buildings and streets, bear the marks of great attention. 

The expense of inclosing the ground with stone or brick, 
is too great to be encountered by the city, or by individuals, 
at this time. Some families, aware of this, have removed io 
their lots in the new ground, all their grave-stones. Others 



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*Te about doing the same. It is not ascertained how ex- 
tensive will be the voluntary removals of this sort ; and it is 
not expected that any removals will be made contrary to the 
feelings of survivors ; but the following considerations arc 
submitted at this time : 

1st. In the rear of the new ground, are about three acres 
not laid out. This has been feebly inclosed, and must soon 
have a new fence for the security of the whole ground. 

2d. The city has no potter's field : One acre of the above 
would be sufficient for that purpose. 

3d. The Corporation of Yale College would probably wish 
for a lot of half an acre, to which, in case of removals, might 
be conveyed the monuments of their Presidents, other offi- 
cers, and students, who have been buried in the old ground ; 
and in which might be the future interment of such. 

4th. The remaining land would be sufficient, in case of re- 
moval, for all the monuments which should not be removed 
into the lots of surviving relatives. 

5th. A plain monument, of very limited expense, in the 
rear of the centre church, might be erected to the memory 
of all the dead in that place ; and this might be replaced in 
some future day by a more expensive one, if the city or citi- 
zens should furnish the means. 

6th. The entire expense of removals on the above plan, 
would be less than that of inclosing the ancient ground. 

These thoughts are thrown out merely for the purpose of 
openmg the subject, and of drawing to it the public atten- 
tion. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. 

At a Court of Common Council of the Cilrj of Xtw-Havciv, 
held on ike 9tk day of Xovemher, 1820. 
The Committee who were appointed at the last meeting 
«f the Common CounciK to take into consideration the situa- 
tion of the ANCIENT BURYING-GROUND, ^c— report- 
ed as follows : viz. 



To the Court of Common Council of the CUy of New-Haxen. 

Your Committee, appointed to report facts and their opinion 

respecting the Ancient Burying-Ground in this city, bej; 

leave to Report : 

That said ground is now in a condition of total neglect, 
and going to ruin, in a manner which we deem to be in- 
consistent with the religious and moral sense of this communi- 
ty, and indicating a want of decent respect for the memory 
of the dead. 

This neglect has arisen partly from a difference of opinion as 
to the best course to be pursued, and partly from other causes, 
none of which appear to have been hostile to the feelings of 
survivors : on the contrary, the Committee have found pub- 
lic opinion entirely in favour of having something speedily 
done in respect to said ground. 

The Committee have ascertained to a considerable extent, 
the views and feelings of surviving relatives, regarding said 
ground ; and very many of them, probably a majority, would 
prefer to have a proper inclosure about the same ; and they 
are willing to erect, at their own expense, a substantial rail- 
ing, sufficient to protect the monuments from ordinary inju- 
ries ; or they will contribute their fair proportion towards 
the expense of inclosing the ground with a vr^W of stone or 
brick. 

The Committee have ascertained to an equal extent, the 
views and feelings of those citizens, who have no relatives in- 
terred in said ground, a great majority of whom appear to 
be in favour of a removal of all the monuments in the An- 
cient Ground to the New Burying-Ground, there to be re- 
placed under the direction of the Common Council. 

Your Committee are of opinion, that the greatest respect, 
which can be paid to the memory of the dead, and the feel- 
ings of survivors, would be shown by the erection of a solid 
and permanent wall round the Ancient Ground ; but they are 
aware of the great expense of the same, and of the difficulty 
of compassing the means in the present state of things. 



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If the pievailing opinion of the citizens shall be opposed to 
any inclosure of the Ancient Ground, and be in favour of the 
removal of the monuments, your committee are persuaded that 
the surviving relatives would submit to the removal, provi- 
ded that a Marble Monument, commemorative'of the act, and 
with suitable inscriptions, should be erected and railed in the 
rear of the Centre Church. 

In the calculation of expense, your Committee report 

that of a substantial railing round the Ancient 

Ground, at $340 

of a wooden picket fence, with cedar posts, at - 860 

of a stone or brick wall, 1700 

and the expenses of removal, including a common 

monument, _ _ . - _ 1400 

Your Committee beg leave to add, that in all their inquiries 
on this subject, they have found, on the part of surviving rela- 
tives, every disposition to yield to any general sentiment re- 
garding it ; and among other citizens, they have found every 
disposition to treat with tenderness the feelings of survivors. 
They, therefore, trust that, with the least possible delay, 
something will be effectually done to rescue our city from fu- 
ture reproach, to quiet the public mind, and to evince sub- 
stantially, our respect for the memory of the dead. 
All which is respectfully submitted. 

RUTHERFORD TROWBRIDGEj 
LEVI IVES, 
SAMUEL DARLING, 
ISAAC GILBERT, 
WILLIAM THACHER, 
ABRAHAM BISHOP, 
WILLIAM BALDWIN. 
:\''ew-Mavc^)i, Mv. 9, iceo. 

VOTE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL. 
Upon the Pteport of the Committee Appointed on the sub- 
ject of the Ancient Burying-Ground, which has been accept- 
ed and ordered for record : 



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Voted, That in the opinion of this Board, it is expedient 
that measures be adopted for the removal of the Monuments 
from the Ancient Burying-Ground to the New Burying- 
Ground, and for the erection of a suitable Monument in the 
rear of the centre Church ; and also for obtaining a suita- 
ble Burjing-Grouud for Yale College — and also a suitable 
Public Burying-Ground to be the property of the City of 
New-Haven. 

Voted, That the Hon. E)lizur Goodrich, Obadiah Holch- 
kiss, Esq. the Hon. James Hillhouse, the Hon. David Dag- 
gett, Isaac Gilbert, Abraham Bishop, and William Mix, Esqrs. 
be a Committee to devise the means of accomplishing said 
objects ; and to report the same to this Board, together with 
any facts upon the subject matter of this reference. 
A true copy of Record. 

ELISHA MUNSON, Clerk. 

REPORT OF THE C03LMITTEE. 

At a Court of Common Council of the City of New-Haven, held 
at tht County-House in said jYew-Havenj JVov* 16th, 1820, 
the following Report was made : 

TO THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW-HAVEN. 

Your Committee, appointed to consider and report ways 
and means for the removal of the Monuments from the An- 
cient Burying-Ground in this city, to the New Burying- 
Ground — also, for the erection of a suitable Monument in 
the rear of the centre Church, and for the obtaining of a 
suitable Burying-Ground for Yale College, and of a Public 
Burjing-Ground for the city, and to report any facts upon the 
subject matter of our appointment — beg leave to Report : 

That we regard the subjects referred to us as of great im- 
portance to the character of the city, to the feelings of sur- 
viving relatives, and to the interests of the citizens in gen- 
eral : — We have therefore devoted to them great attention, 
and have unanimously agreed to submit to your Board the 
following facts and opinions. 



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Wc find, that in the year 1814, tliirtj-lwo of our citizens 
purchased an addition to the New Buryiug-Ground ; and that 
in the purchase and completion of highways about the same, 
they expended 280 dollars ; all of which have gone to the 
benefit of the city. We fiud also, that said company now 
has, in the rear of said addition, about three acres of unap- 
propriated ground, which cost thcrn 560 dollars ; being in the 
whole, 840 dollars ;- — all which may be obtained by the city 
at that pricci- 

This tract of three acres will be sufficient for all the pur- 
poses of a burying-ground for the city, and for a suitable 
burying-ground for Yale College; towards the expense of 
which, that institution will probably contribute hereafter. 

Added to the above expense of 840 dollars, will be 5C0 
dollars for inclosing and levelling the three acres ; for remo- 
val and replacing of the monuments which are now in the An- 
cient Ground ; also, for a marble Monument, and the railing 
of the same, and for such other contingencies as must be 
provided fur in such a concern. 

We believe that a portion of this expense, being in all 1400 
dollars, might be raised by subscription ; but considering the 
frequency of addresses to the justice or charity of individuals, 
and the great inequality of contributions in this form, we for- 
bear to recommend the raising of any monies by subscription. 

The citizens residing near the public square in this city, 
Mho may be supposed to have a. peculiar interest in the re- 
moval of the monuments, have been exposed, in several pub- 
lic improvements, to many heavy expenses, not common to 
the other citizens ; which expenses they have met with great 
fairness and liberality. 

The contemplated lemo-val of Monuments, and the pur- 
chase of a Public Burying-Ground, we consider to be a com- 
mon concern, which the city ought to assume ; especially as 
the ground will be principally for that class of citizens, who 
pay but a small tax. Those, who pay a large proportion of 
the taxes, are now provided with family burying lots. In this 



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'Connexion, your Committee would express an opinion, thnt 
the citizens in the eastern village, who have a hurying-ground 
of their own, ought to be exempt from the operation of a 
lax for the above objects. 

Your Committee have, in their deliberations, considered 
(hat, in case of the proposed removal, many monuments 
would be taken hy relatives into their own lot? — and that a 
•common Monument, in rear of the centre Church, composed 
of the remaining memorials of the dead, might be as accepta- 
ble to survivors, as a niar])le monument. It has also been sug- 
gested, that in lieu of either, a marble Slab, with suitable in- 
scriptions, in rear of said church, might be equally acceptable. 
As this subject appears to be drawing to a termination sat- 
isfactory to all classes, your Committee decline to advise any 
substitute of any former project ; but they beg leave to re- 
port, as their opinion, that a city meeting be called for con- 
sideration of this subject ; that it be proposed to the meet- 
ing, whether they will assume the expense of 1400 dollars 
for the objects aforesaid ; and in case of an ainrmative vote, 
that a Committee of Superintendence be appointed, with 
power to receive conveyances, and to do and perform what- 
ever may be necessary to efTcct the above objects; said com- 
mittee to be authorized to adopt, in lieu of a marble monu- 
ment and entire removal, either of the plans before suggest- 
ed, if either shall be manifest!}^ acceptable to the surviving 
relatives of the deceased. Yet, if the course which has 
been reported to your Board by a former committee, shall 
be found most acceptable, we are of opinion, that it be car- 
ried into eiTect in all its parts. 

All which is respectfully submitted. 

ELIZUR GOODRICH, 
OBADIAH IIOTCIIKISS, 
.TvVMES IIILLliOUSE, 
DAVID DAGGETT, 
ISAAC GILBERT, 
ABR All A r.I BISIIOI^. 

A\ ILLIAM MIX. 

JWiv- Haven, Aof. 15, 1020. 



Which report was accepted, approved, and ordered for 
record. 

Whereupon this Court unanimously recommend to the 

Mayor to call a City Meeting on Thursday next, at 2 o'clock. 

P. M. to consider and decide on the subject matter of said 

Report. 

Certified by ELISHA MUNSON, Clerk. 

VOTE OF CITY MEETING. 

At a Meeting of the Mayor, Aldermen, Common Council and 

Freemen of the City of New -Haven, held in said city, on the 

23c? November, 1820 : 

Whereas a Committee, composed of the descendants and 
relatives of those, who have been interred in the Ancient 
Burying-Ground on the Public Square, have reported in 
regard to the Ancient Burying-Ground, what, in their opin- 
ion, will be respectful to the memory of the dead, and satis- 
factory to the feelings of survivors, as appears by the report 
of said Committee, accepted by the Court of Common 
Council, and recorded in their records, and laid before this 
meeting — And it being made to appear to this meeting, by 
an additional report of a Committee, which has also been 
accepted by the Court of Common Council, and recorded is 
their records, that the expense of removing the Monuments 
from the Ancient Burying-Ground, erecting a suitable Mon- 
ument commemorative of the event, and purchasing a com- 
mon Burying-Ground, for the future use of the city, will 
amount to about fourteen hundred dollars : — 

Voted, as the sense of this meeting. That the removal of 
the Monuments from the Ancient Burying-Ground, is an im- 
portant object ; and as the course proposed is respectful to 
the memory of the dead, and satisfactory to the feelings of 
surviving relatives, it is proper that this city assume the ex- 
pense of accomplishing the same, to the extent of the sum 
proposed ; and as it may be desirable that Yale College take 
a part of the New Burying-Ground for the use of (hat Insti- 



tutioD, and pay a reasonable sum toward the same, the Com- 
mittee hereafter named are instructed to negociate hereafter, 
with the President and Fellows, upon that subject ^ — and that 
James Hillhouse, Esq. Abraham Bishop, Esq. Rev. Samuel 
Merwin, Rev. Harry Croswell, Rev. Nathaniel W. Taylor, 
Rev. Wm. Thacher, and William Mix, Esq. be, and they are 
hereby appointed a Committee to accomplish the objects 
proposed and recommended in said two reports of Commit- 
tee, in conformity to the plan therein specified. 

Voted, That a tax of one cent and five milles on the dollar 
be laid and levied on the grand list of the jear 1819, and 
that the avails thereof, as far as necessary, be applied by said 
Committee to the purpose aforesaid ; that the citizens re- 
siding in the village of Fair-Haven, and those who ordinari- 
ly bury their dead in the burying-ground in said village, have 
their several parts of said tax abated ; that said tax be col- 
lectable by the first day of January next, and paid into the 
Treasury by the Collector by the first day of May next. 

Voted, That John Scott be Collector of said tax. 

,mest. ELISHA 5IUNSON, aerk. 



After the Committee had made every preparation for re- 
moval, a PUBLIC SERVICE was held in the Centre Church, 
on the morning of the 26th of June, 1821 ; previous notice 
having been given on the preceding Sabbath, in all the 
churches. A great concourse was assembled ; and the Exer- 
cises were performed in a very impressive and appropriate 
manner, by the Rev. Messrs. Taylor, Merwin, Thacher and 
Hill : the Sacred Music under the direction of Mr. Ailing 
Brown. 

1st — 232d Hymn : " Hark ! from the tombs a doleful 
sound." 

2d. — 1st Corinthian's, 15th chapter. 

3d. — Introductory Prayer. 

4th.— 24801 Hyjix : " How long shall Death, the tyrant, 



Tjtli— FUNERAL ADDRESS. 

-1st CORLVTHMMS, 15th chap, part of 5Zd verse 



IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST 
, " 



TRUMP, THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED. 



It is the province of the divine to speak of deatii, 
judgment, and eternity ; and it can never be improper for 
any mortal to say to all the living about him, Ye will surely 
<lie ; and after that, ye will as surely rise again from the 
dead. 

" They, who are in their graves, shall hear the voice of the 
Son of God, and come forth." 

" I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand 
at the latter day on the earth ; and though, after my skin, 
worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, 
w^hom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and 
not another." 

*' Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be 
broken, or the pitcher broken at the fountain, or the wheel 
broken at the cistern ; then shall the dust return to the earth, 
as it "was ; and the spirit shall return unto God, who gave it." 

The doctrine of the resurrection, universally believed in 
Ihe Christian world, rests solely on revelation. All human wis- 
-dom and philosophy would have consigned man to an eternal 
sleep in the grave ; but life and immortality have been brought 
to light in the Gospel. 

" I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord. He 
that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he 
live ; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never 
die." 



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Many of you have been called to witness the last breath of 
a- wife or husband ; of a father, mother, brother, or sister. 
To such be it a consolation, that the graves arc to give up 
their dead ; that mortality is to be swallowed up of life ; that 
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the dead shall be 
raised incorruptible, and that we shall be changed ; for this 
corruptible must put on iiicorruption, and this mortal must put 
on immortality. Then shall be brought to pass the saying, 
which is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 

In yonder ground are reposed the remains of our friends, 
waiting for the morning of the resurrection : 

"Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse,. 
The place of fame and elegy supply ; 
And many a holy text around she strews,. 
That teaeh the rustic moralist to die. 

For who, to- dumb forgetfulness a prey, 
This pleasing, anxious being o'er resign'd ? 
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, 
Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? 

On some fond breast, the parting soul relies ; 
Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; 
Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature ciies, 
Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." 

The removal of those frail memorials, and the erection of 
a common Monument, have devolved on us as a joint duty, 
which let us discharge in a spirit worthy of our kindred, who 
have left to us such precious, beloved, and venerated relics •, 
and thus give a lesson to those, who will soon have in charge 
our remains : for however, in the healthful scenes of life, we 
may flatter ourselves that the day is distant, yet we know that 
to all of us the time is hastening, and to those who have pass- 
ed the meridian, it is near, when these pampered and sclf- 
gloritied bodies, now full of life and motion, will be cold, and 
when every member of this great assembly will be numbered 
with the dead. 



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In the hours, which will immediately precede our dissolir- 
tion and exchange of worlds, of no moment will it be, wheth- 
er we have held high or low rank in the church or the world ; 
whether we have been rich or poor, bond or free, honoured 
with titles, or in humble life. All the majesty, wealth and 
power of earth, must fall before the messenger of death. 
Kings and emperors must resign their crowns ; and the glory 
of this world must be literally and constantly passing away. 

The Ancient Burying-Ground in this place was early de- 
voted to the purpose of sepulture. There rest in silence 
the Heatons, the Newmans, the Gregsons, and their asso- 
ciates and successors, who, after a hfe of simplicity and god- 
ly sincerity, having laid the foundation of the comforts which 
we enjoy, were carried to the grave. To them, in their long 
sleep, as to the Watchman of Israel, who never slumbers, a 
day and a thousand years are the same. T^hey note not the 
lapse of time. They have passed the bourne, whence no 
traveller returns. The places, which once knew them with 
pleasure, will know them no more for ever. 

" When the ear heard them, then it blessed them ; and 
when the eye saw them, it gave witness unto them." 

" The blessing of him that was ready to perish, came up- 
on them ; and they caused the widow's heart to sing for 

joy." 

" They were fathers to the poor ; and the cause which they 
knew not, they searched out. Their judgment was as a robe 
and a diadem.'' 

What though their names have not been rung through the 
globe as the victorious destroyers of human hfe, or as the 
favourites of a court ; yet they have been our statesmen, 
our Christian fathers, and our great examples. 

There rest the remains of Dixwell and Whalley, who, 
after miraculous deliverances, came to their graves in peace. 

There rest the venerable Presidents of our highly valued 

institution of learning : Pibus Pastors, on whose lips 

once hung divine instruction ; and near them, the jewels of a 



heavenly crown : Civilians, who once commanded the 

listening applause of senates : able Judges, powerful 

Advocates, and skilful Physicians ; all ranks, ages and 

degrees, which composed the generations before us, once 
moving, once loving, once bestowing, suffering and enjoying, 
as we do. 

If love and friendship are there entombed, so every hateful 
passion is at rest ; and if, a few feet above them, the busy 
crowd is following its amusements, its fashions, or its duties, 
often will the tolling bell announce, that one generation pass- 
eth away, and another cometh. 

In that interesting ground, the sculptor's model is cold as 
his marble. Beauty and strength ; youth and manhood ; 
they, who charmed the social circle ; whole families, once 
delighting each other round the winter fire-side, or sharing 
the bounties of Heaven at the hospitable board ; they, who 
sought sweet communion together, and filled our houses of 

worship ; there they lie, undistinguished from common 

earth. 

" Surely man cometh up, and is cut down like a flower. 
He fleeth as it were a shadow, and continueth not in one 
stay. In the midst of life, he is in death." 

" Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust !" 

Looking for the general resurrection in the last day, and 
the life of the world to come, they rest from their labours, 
and their works do follow them. They have entered into 
peace ; they rest in their beds, each one walking in his up- 
rightness. 

" Behold, fond man ! sec here thy pictured life, 
Thy flowering spring ; thy summer's ardent strength ; 
Thy sober autumn fading into age ; 
And pale, concluding winter comes at last, 
And shuts the scene. Ah ! whither now are fled 
Those dreams of greatness ? those unsolid hopes 
Of happiness ? those longin^gs after fame ? 
Tho:^c restless cares? those busy, bustling davs ? 



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l-hosc ^ay spent, festive nights ? those veering thought;.^ 
iiOst between good and ill, that shared thy life? 
All now are vai>i?h'd ! Virtue sole survives, 
Immortal, never-failing friend of man, 

His gUidetO'happiness on hgh. »And soo ?' 

Tis come! the glorious morn, the second biit-h 

Of heaven and eartli : Awakeninj nature he;;!.; 

The new creating^ word, and starts to life 

In every heighteu'd form ; from pain and deata 

For ever free." * * * * • 

- ^ ^' *■ ^- * "Yc good di3;,:e:-c: 

i'-e noble few, who here unbending stand 

Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up av.hiic, 

And A\'hat your bounded' view, which only eu>v 

A little part, deem'd evil, is no more. 

The storms of wintry time will quickly pas?, 

Auil one unbounded spring encircle all." 

From the settlement of the town, to the year 1796, that 
t!;rouucl was occupied as a common place of burial, and has 
been the theatre, where our sinceiest effusions baT& been ex- 
hibited. 

To that ground hO\V many have been the mournful", long- 
d«awn processions ! and when the dead has been laid in the 
ijarro%v house, how has the crowd scattered to view the 
mounds or monuments of tJiose, who were mice dear to 
them ! 

There, many a widow, surrounded hy her weeping children, 
li;ts^ karnt. for the first moment, that her Maker, even the 
Lord of hosts, was ready to be her husband ; and the children 
have foivnd that they had an everliving Father. There, while 
we have lafi on a level in the earth, those, who held unequal 
J ank on the surface of it, we have doubtless interred many, 
who, if better opportunities in life had favoured, would have 
!»een eminent for their talents and usefulness. 

"Pevhap.s, in that neglected spot is laid 
Some heart, once pregnant with celestial fire ; 
Iiiinds, that the rod of empire might have sway'dj 
Or v,aked to extacy the living lyire. 



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But Knowledge to their eyes,]ipr ample pago, 
.Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er, unroll : 
C'hill penury repress'd their noble rage, 
And froze the genial current ot" the soul. 

Full-many a gem, of pure.st ray serene, 
The dark, unfathoni'd caves of ocean bear ; 
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, 
And waste its sweetness on the desert air." 

But the highest value of thatground, arises from tlic fact, 
ihat if in ail other places we have been deceivers, there we 
have been honest. Let this thought always bear to that 
earth our highest iribtite of ^recollection. If, m this work! 
of sin and wo, one spot can^be nKirked as the uniform abode 
of sincerity and truth, let that spot be held in perpetual 
reverence as consecrated ground. 

There, how often by the light of the moon or of the star?, 
'has the orphan daughter gone to mourn over the turf, v.hich 
covered the ren^ains of a once careful and beloved mother; 
and in those moments, how valued and revered were the 
last injunctions of such a relative ! 

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the 
house of feasting^ andthe grave-yard, with the variety of 
memorials, of hol}"^ texts and select quotations, which affec- 
ntion chooses for the expression of the heart, offers us sermons 
fuller of eloquence, than the ablest preachers can furnish. — 
The graves, though full of the dead, speslk a living language. 
which none can mistake. In view of them, with what pious 
hope, with what faithful ardour, will every mourning expec- 
tant of a better world hail the assurance, that, in a moment. 
in the twinkling of an eye, the dead shall be raised! and 
when, from ascended millions, who shall have burst the cere- 
ments of the tomb, and whom no man can number, of every 
nation and language, tribe, tongue and people, shall be heard 
a voice, as of many waters, as the noise of mighty thunderings, 
saying. Alleluia! for the Lord God OMviroTF.vT rktgk 

'KTH I 



But the burial of wives and husbands, of parents, of 
brethren and sisters, is not the only source of grief and in- 
struction. Our children, our hopes, the young buds of im- 
mortality just bursting into life, are blasted ; and thus are 
the heart-strings rent. 

In that ground, commemorative of the burial of two chil- 
dren in one grave, the following inscription, by the late Presi- 
dent Dwight, tells the whole story of parental distress : 

" Come, every fond, indulgent parent, here 
Yield the slight tribute of a passing tear. 
Could youth, could innocence, could beauty, save, 
This young, bright pair had found a later grave. 
Learn how, from this, your fav'rite race to prize, 
Nor build gay hopes beneath the lower skies ; 
No lovelier infants e'er began to bloom, 
Or fonder wishes perish'd in the tomb." 

But bereaved parents may have a consoling hope, tiic(t 
their lovely infants, once resting on their bosoms, grateful for 
maternal kindness, and lisping the sweet accents of innocence, 
are now reposing on the bosom of their Saviour, and singing 
hosannas to the Son of David. He took little children in his 
arms, and blessed them, and said. Of such is the kingdom of 
heaven. 

After the ancient ground had been literally fdled, and the 
congregation of the dead became more numerous than that 
of the living, a new field was opened for a burying place ; 
and our ancestors, with some who are present, selected lots 
for themselves and families. This was, on their part, a most 
impressive act, as it showed their sense of the certainty of 
approaching death, which they have since tasted, and of the 
decencies due to funeral rites. 

The arrangement of the new ground caused it to be a pub- 
lic ornament, and proved that, while we were careful in the 
decoration of places for the living, we were not unmindful of 
the house appointed for us all. 

All the lots in the new ground having been occupied, an 
addition has been made, sufficient for the present generation, 



and lor all the memorials to be removed. Then let a com- 
fnon monument record the fact of removal, with such other 
information as is due to posterity and to the passing stranger. 

To many survivors, the inclosurc of the ancient ground, 
without removals, would have been more acceptable ; but as 
this was impracticable, and as the tablets were occasionally 
broken, the proposed course has appeared to be the most 
respectful and proper, which the present state of the subject 
admits. 

Let the motives of those, who have formerly differed re- 
specting this ground, be viewed v/ith candour and charity. 
In the solemn act, which is to consummate our intentions, let 
us dismiss every feeling, inconsistent with the occasion, and 
cultivate those affections and principles, which will make us 
wiser and better in this world, and fitter for our eternal state 
of being. 

In all seasons of deep distress, while many are mourning 
for their first-born, because they arc not, death desolatin<'- 
our houses, snatching our sons and daughters, the joy of our 
days and the pride of our hearts, no human eye able to pen- 
etrate the mazes of Infinite Wisdom, and to discern why 
one is taken, and another left ; our subject offers to survivors 
a volume of instruction. 

It pronounces vanity on all beneath the sun. 

It teaches submission, humility, patience, charity, peni- 
tence, and every heavenly virtue; and, through the dark 
valley of the shadov/ of death, points the eye of faith to 
beams of light from the Sun of Righteousness. 

It directs the tenants of these houses of clay to mansions 
beyond the skies ; to a city, which liath foundations, where 
there is no death, neither sickness, nor sorrow, nor cryin<5^, 
nor any more pain ; where tears shall be wiped from evcrv 
eye, sorrow banished from every heart, and where the ran- 
somed of the Lord shall have arrived with songs and ever- 
lastingjoy upon (hoir head:? : tor the former things shall have 
passed away. 



Dealli, wliicli reigned from Adam to Moses, will surely 
triumph over all which is mortal; but he must finally, in the 
midst of opening heavens and crumbling worlds, surrender 
himself, with all his spoils, to the Giver of life, and witness 
the release of all his captives ; for, in a moment, in the 
twinkling of an eye, the dead shall be raised. 

Have any people inscribed on their temples, that death is 
an eternal sleep ? On the Monument, which we shall raise, 
let the w^ords of our text be copied from the record : 

"In a moment, in the twinkling ©f an eye, at the last 
trump, the dead shall be raised," 

For this truth gives infinite importance to graves and funer- 
als ; to Sabbaths and sanctuaries ; to life and death ; to time 
and eternity. 

— ^iQ!^— 

€th. — 251st Hymn : " No, I'll repine at death no more." 
7th. — Voice of Warning. 

3th — 235th Hymn : " There is a land of pure delight." 
Sth — Blessin®. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDING COMMITTEE. 

To the Common Council of the City of J^ew- Haven. 

The Committee, appointed to superintend the removal of 
the Monuments from the Ancient Burying-Ground, beg leave 
to Report : — That they purchased for the city the proposed 
Jot, inclosed and levelled the same. It was then laid out in 
conformity with the general plan of the Burying-Ground, and 
tlivided as follows : 

Six City Squares, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 

One Square for Yale College. 

One for Strangers. 

One for People of Colour. 

After the religious services in the church, the Committee, 
siccompanied by the President and Officers of College, com- 
menced the work of removal, by conveying the monumentf 



'2^ 

<-id Officers and Students to the new College Square. Thei? 
. cxt care v.as the removal, on application of survivors, oi 
;.ionuments into family lots in the New Ground. All the 
other monuments were then removed to City Square, No. 1 ; 
on the north of which are two lots reserved for the Methodist 
and Baptist Societies : the other Societies having had lots ae- 
sifned to them in the first distribution of the Ground. 

The bui'ial of citizens, not having family lots, has com- 
menced at the south-west corner of City Square, No. 2, and 
will be continued in regular order till that square shall be 
lilled, when the burying in No. 3 will be commenced at the 
S. W. corner ; and the same order will be observed, without 
any variation, in the other City Squares, and in those allotted 
to College, to strangers, and to people of colour. 

The Committee caused the Ancient Ground to be levelled, 
and a common Monument to be erected in rear of the Centre 
Church. A copy of the Inscription is inclosed, together with 
a List of the deceased, whose monuments are covered by the 
Centre Church ; also a List of those, whose monuments were 
recently removed, and a Plan of the New Burying-Ground 
entire, with the names of the original owners, or present pro- 
prietors of family lots. 

Some survivors removed the remains and monuments of 
their friends into their own lots, previous to the general re- 
moval : Some of the monuments had been broken, and the 
inscriptions on others were either illegible or very obscure. 
Our lists must in some respects be incorrect and defective ; 
but such as they are, we trust that they will be acceptable to 
our fellow-citizens, whose friendly and zealous co-operation 
with us in the discharge of this public service^ is gratefully 
acknowledged. 

The audited expense of this concern, including the pur- 
chase of the lot, being $'1289 38, has been fully paid to us 
by the City Treasurer. 

In behalf of the Committee. 

JAMES HLLLIiOUSE, amirmaiu 

Xc-w Jlaren, Sept. I, l?,=il. 



A List of the Deceased, whose Monmneats are 
covered by the Centre Church. 



FIRST TABLET. 

Mary Ailing 
PhiEbe Ailing 
Nathan Ailing 
Hannah Ailing 
Fitch Ailing 
Margaret Arnold 
Hannah Austin 
Dorcas Bell 
Amelia Jarvis 
Samuel P. Brown 
]Maria P. Brown 
Amy Bradley 
Hannah Bradley 
Mary Bradley 
Sidney Bradley 
Ann Cook 
William Cook 
Ann Collins 
Esther Coster 

SECOXD TABLET. 

Jared Ingersoll 
Jared, his Son 
Deborah Jones 
.Rebecca Loynd 
Sarah Lyman 
Sarah Lyman 
Sarah Lyman 
Sarah Lyman 
Wareham Mather 
Elizabeth Mather 
Rev. Joseph Noyes 
John Noyes 
Mary Noyes 
Joseph Noyes 
Dorothy Noyes 
James Noyes 
(Vnne Noyes 
Mary H. Oswald 
Hannah Ingersoll 

THird) TABLET. 

Catharine Dana 
Abigail Davenport 
Mary Edwards 
Mary Forbes 
William Greuough 
Katharine, his W^ifc 



Dorcas > tlveir 
Katharine ^ Daughters 
Sackett Gilbert 
Sam Oaskell 
Elizabeth Gaskell 
Rebecca Hays 
Mary Hays 
Mary Hays 
Ezekicl Hays 
Rutherford Hall 
Hannah Howell 
Timothy Howell 
Joseph Howell 
Elizabeth Howell 
Elizabeth Howell 
John Hyde 
James A. Hillhouse 
Sarah Hillhouse 
Sarah L. her Child 

FOURTHTABLET. 

Thomas Trowbridge 
Sarah, his Wife 
Sarah, their Child 
Johii Trowbridge 
Daniel Trowbridge, 
Thomas Trow bridge 
Mary, his Wife 
Caleb Trowbridge 
Daniel Trowbridge ■ 
Mabel, his Wife 
Hannah } their 
Daniel (, Children 
Elizab. Wife of New- 
man Trowbridge 
Rebecca,their daughter 
Joseph Trowbridge 
Sarah, his Wife 
Mary Tiowbrid:';e 
Til aiikful Trowbridge 
Stephen Trowbridge 
Amos Trowbridge 
Sybyl ^ Children of 
Svbyl ! Daniel and 
Sybyl [Sybyl Trow- 
Daniel J bridge 
Rutherford Trowbridge 
Rev. Chauncey Whit- 
tlesey 



Elizabeth } his 
Martha ^ Wives 
Samuel J. ") 
Elisha \ tlieir 
Elizabeth f Children 
l^lizabeth j 
Jno. B. W^hittlesey 
Susannah White 
Harriot White 
Sanuiel W^hitehead 
Stephen Whitehead 
Elizab. K. Whittlesey 

FIFTH TABLET 

Rev. James Pierpoat 
Abigail } his 
Sarah ^ Wives 
Mary Pierpont 
James Pierpont 
Sarah, his Wife 
Hezekiaii Pierpont 
Sarah ") 
Sarah 
Polly 
Sarah 
Henry 
John Prout 
Timothy Prout 
Margaret Prout 
Thankful Pinto 
Elizabeth Parmele* 
Sidney Piatt 
Jolin Rttter 
Ricliard Roswell 
Lydia, Ids Wife 
John Roswell 
Esther Shipman 
Esther Shipman 
Joseph W. Treeves 
iPhoebe Treadwell 
Joseph Whitins 
Hannah, his Wife- 
Jclin Whiting 
Savah ) his 
Sarah ^ Wives 
Saml.Wales,D.D. s.t. 
Samuel Wales, jr. 
Sarah Woodward 
Elizabeth Woodward 
William J. Whiting 



I Children of 
}> Jon. & Sarah 
I Pierpont 



^5 



A List of those, wliose Monuments were re* 
ccntly removed. 



AtwatPr Loly 
Atuater Sanuiel 
Atuater Abigail 
Atwater Steplien 
Atw ater Daniel 
Atwater Abigail 
Atwaler Ste])iien 
Atwater Sanuiel 
Atwater Abigail 
Atwater Ezra 
Atwater Joshua 
Atwater Anna 
Atwater Eldad 
Atwater Lydia 
Atwater Abel 
Vtwater James 
Atwater Dinah 
Atwater Elijah 
Atwater David 
Atwater David's 2 Sons 
Atwater Lydia 
Atwater Lydia 
Atwater Lydia 
Atwater William 
Atwater William 
Atwater Ann 
Atwater Catharine 
Atwater Jonathan 
Atwater .Martha 
Atwater Hannah 
Atwater Jonathan 
Atwater Jeremiah 
Atwater Joel 
Atwater Abiah 
Atwater Jonathan 
Atwater David 
Atwater David fc Wife 
Atwater Tabitlia 
Atwater Ruth 
Atwater Elisha 
Atwater Isaac 
Atwater Dolly 
Alley William 
Allsup Joseph 
Allsup Elizabetli 
Adye Aner 
Adye Abigail 
Allicoke Elizabeth 



Allcock Thomas 
Austin Mary 
Austin Elijah 
Austin Stephen 
Austin Stephen 
Austin Stephen 
Austin Sarah 
Austin Elisha 
Austin Ebenezer 
Austin Hannah 
Austin Elizabeth 
Austin Anna 
Ailing Caleb 
Ailing Oliver 
Ailing Stephen 
Ailing Sarah 
Ailing Ainah 
Ailing James 
Ailing Martha 
Ailing Susanna 
Ailing Sarah 
Ailing Jonathan 
Ailing John 
Ailing John 
Ailing Rhoda 
Ailing Jesse 
Ailing Susanna 
Ailing Enos 
Ailing Ebenezer 

Burr Thaddeus 
Burr Sarah 
Biur Sarah 
Burr William 
Bun' John^ 
Burr Mary 
Burr Betty 
Basset Elizabeth 
Basset Enos 
Basset John 
Basset Enos 
Basset 3Iehetabel 
Basset Hezekiah 
Basset Hannah 
Basset John 
Bass«t Mercy 
Basset John 
Basset Samuel 



Basset Ebenezev 
Basset John 
Basset Mary 
Basset Thankful 
Basset Mary 
Basset Susanna 
Bostwick Amos G. 
Brown Daniel 
Brown Eleazer 
Brown Sarah 
Brown Hannah 
Brown Mary 
Brown Daniel 
Brown Daniel 
Brown Jacob 
Brown Mary 
Brown Hannah 
Brown Francis 
Brown Isaac 
Brown Harriot 
Brown Elizabeth 
Brown Hannah 
Brown Timothy 
Bradley Sarah 
Bradley Ann 
Bradley Stephen 
Bradley Abner 
Bradley Abigail 
Bradley Mary 
Bradley Abigail 
Bradley Jesse 
Bradley Phineas 
Bradley Erastus 
Bradley Martha 
Bradley Phineas 
Bradley John 
Bradley Hannah 
Bradley Chloe 
Bradley Israel 
Bradley Amy 
Bradley Sidney 
Bradley Mary 
Bradley Abram 
Bonticou Susannah 
Bonticou David 
Bonticou Mary 
Bonticou Peter 
Bonticou James 



m 



Bonticou David 
Kcll John 
Bird Samuel 
Bird Sarah 
Bishop Sibbel 
Bishop Hannah 
Bishop Sarah 
Bceclier Lvdia- ■ 
Beecher John 
Beechcr Joseph 
Beeeher Eli 
Beecher Hannah 
Beecher John 
Beecher Content 
Beecher Jonathan- 
Beecher Anna 
Beeclier Hunnah' 
Beecher Lydia 
Beecher Hei^ekiah 
Meeciier Nathaniel' 
Beecher Sarah 
Burrows Joseph 
Biurows Lydia 
Burrows Joseph' 
Burrows Lydia> 
Ball John 
i'all Joseph 
Ball Mary 
Ball John 
Ball Sarah 
Ball ]3avid 
Ball John 
Beers Nathan' 
Beers Hannah 
Beers Hannah 
Beers William M.- 
Brintnal Samuel 
Brintnal Dolly 
Brintnal Lucy 
Burritt Elizabeth ■ 
Burritt Sarah 
Blake slee Susanna 
Blakeslee John 
Barns Samuel 
Benners Eliza C. 
Brownton Deborah 
Baley Barzillai 
Beardsley Hezekiah 
Brainard Israel 
I'avclay Thofrras 
Burrill Jarnes 
Bunnell Israel 
Baldwin Michael 



Baldwin Michael 
Boolh Josiah 
Burroughs Eden 

Carpenter Mary 
Carpenter Abigail 
Carpenter Anthony 
Ceoper Timothy 
Cooper Jason 
Clark Catharine 
Clark Mary 
Clark Eunice 
Clark Timothy 
Clark Elizabeth 
Cutler Mary 
Cutler Jonathan 
Cutler William 
Cutler Benjamin 
Cutler Mary 
Cutler AVilliam 
Chatterton Samuel 
Chatterton Samuel- 
Cable Sarah 
Cable Sarah 
Crane Elijah 
Crane Elijah 
Canner Henry 
Canner Abigail' 
Chedsey John 
Comstock Martha' 
Curtiss Abner 
Carrington Daniel 
Colt Polly 

Dickerman Ashbel 
Dickern)an Mary 
Dickerman Abraham 
Dickerman Stephen 
Dickerman Isaac 
Dickerman Elizabeth 
Dickerman Mary 
Dickerman Stephen 
Dickerman Hubbart 
Diodatq William 
Diodate Sarah 
Danielson S^rah 
Danielson John and ) 
Children ^ 
Doolittle Mary 
Doolittle Isaac 
Denison Elizabeth 
Dummer Abigail 
Daggett Sarah 



Edv/ards Jonatha-n 
Ells Susannah 
Eld Ann 
English Sarah 

Fitch Thomas 
Fitch Nathaniel 
Fitch Bethiah 
Fitch Samuel M. 
Fitch Elizabeth 
Fitch Samuel M. 
Fitch Jonathan 
Fitch Sarah 
Fitch Jonathan 
Fitch Jonathan 
Fitch Sarah 
Fitch Thomas 
Fitch 3Iary 
Fitch Sarah 
Ford Caleb, Martha ? 
and Children y 
Ford Martha 
Ford Timothy 
Ford Matthew 
Ford Elizabeth 
Ford Timothy 
Ford Martha 
Forbes Lucy 
Fenton 

Gilbert John 
Gilbert Joel 
Gilbert Lydia 
Gilbert Marcus 
Gilbert Elizabeth 
Gilbert Israel 
Gilbert Sarah 
Gilbert David 
Gilbert Aaron 
Gilbert Mary 
Gilbert Experience 
Gilbert Esther 

Gilbert J 

Gilbert Thomas 
Gilbert Mary 
Gilbert John 
Gilbert Hezekiah- 
Gilbert Jane 
Gilbert James 
Gilbert Elizabeth 
Gorham Mary 
Gorham Emeline. 
Gorham 



s^ 



vtrorham Hannah 
'jGorham Elizabeth 
-Gorham Isaac 
-^jroiham James 
'Gregory Ebenezer J. 

Gregory Stephen A. 

Greenleaf Stephen 

Greenleaf Charles 

Gibbard Timothy 
-Gibb Henry 

Gold Thomas 

Gibbard Abiah 

Gill Elias 
-<ireen Elizabeth 
•Green Abigail 

'Howell Desire 
Howell John 
Howell Stephen 
Howell Thomas 
Howell Mary 
Howell Mary 
Howell Mary 
Howell Thomas 
Howell Sally 
Howell Harriet 
fiowell Mary 
Howell Susannah 
Howell Timothy 
Huggins John 
Huggins Mary 
Huggins Esther 
Heaton Thankfiil 
Heaton Phcebe 
Heaton Sarah 
Holt Thomas 
Holt Abigail 
Holt Eleazer 
Holt Tabitha 
Hudson John 
Hudson Elizabeth 
Hudson John 
Hodson John 
Hodson Samuel 
Hodshon John 
Hubbard Leveret 
Hubbard Hester 
Hubbard Julia 
Hubbard Elizabeth 
Hubbard Juliana 
Hubbard Leveret 
Hubbard Stephen W. 
Hubbard Elizabeth 



Habl)ard Sarnh 
Hubbard Martha 
Hubbard Elizabeth 
Hubbard Russel 
Hubbard John 
Hubbard Wyliys 
Hubbard Mary 
Hubbard Vv^illiam 
Hubbard William A. 
Hubbard Sarali 
Hubbard Elijah 
Hubbard Daniel 
Hctchkiss Meiietabel 
Hotciikiss Elillect 
flotchkiss Mehitabel 
Hctchkiss Abigail 
Hotchkiss Jerusha 
Hotchkiss Caleb 
Hotchkiss Ph(fibe 
Hotchkiss Silas 
Jlotciikiss Lent . & 2 > 
Children S 
.Hotchkiss Mercy 
•Holmes Gershom 
Holmes Nancy 
iHall Richard 
Hall Hannah 
Handy Belildcik 
Howard John 
Hobbv Sarah 
Hubbel Mary D. 
Heynes John 
Harwood William H. 
Hickock Samuel 
Hancock John 
'Hendrick Mary-Ann 
Hotchkins Thomas 
HarriG Stephen 
Horton Timothy 
Horton Sarah 
Horton Samuel 
Horton Elisha 
Horton Naomi 
Hopkins Jacob 
Hinman Timothy 
Humphreyville Lydia 
Hine Mary 
Hotchcock John 

Ives Sally 
Ives Maria 

Johnson Abisail 



Joluison Abigaii 
Johnson Enos 
Johnson Chloe 
Johnson Ebenezer 
•Johnson Abigail 
Johnson Rebeccii 
Jones Timothy 
Jones Anna 
Jones William 
Jones Timothy ic. Sch 
Jones Elizabeth 
Jones Ann 
Judson David 
Judson Maria 
Jebine Mary 
Jocelin Desire 

■Kimberly N. 
Kimberly Mary 

Lyon William and I 
Family \ 

Lion Mary 
Lyman Medad 
-Lyman Phineas 
Lyman Daniel 
■Lyman Sarah 
Lyman Aaron 
Lines Samuel 
Lines Lue 
Lounsburg Hannah 
Lane Susannah 
Lane Job 
Lucas Augustus 
Langmuir Hannah 

Miles Daniel 
Miles John 

Miles 

Miles Mary 
Miles John 
Miles Harriet 
Miles Roswell 
Miles Sarah 
Miles Samuel 
Miles Catharine 
Miles Hannah 
Miies James 
Miles Richard 
Munson Lucy 
Munswn Stejjhen 
Munson Susanijaii 
Munson Benjamu> 



^s 



Munson Susannali 
Munson Jonathan 
Munson Thomas 
Munson James 
Munson Theophilus 
Munson Joseph 
Munson Sarah 
Munson Elizabeth 
Munson Joseph 
Munson Israel 
Munson Mary 
Munson John 
Munson Theophilus 
Munson Theophilus 
Mansfield Nathan 
Mansfield Elizabeth 
Mansfield Stephen 
Mansfield Stephen 
Mansfield Esther 
Mansfield John 
Mansfield Ann Mary 
Mansfield Japhet 
Mansfield Ebenezer 
Mansfield Moses 
Mansfield Margaret 
Mansfield Moses 
Mansfield Jonathan 
Mansfield Sarah 
Mansfield Abigail 
Mansfield Joseph 
Mansfield Hannah 
Mansfield Elizabeth 
Mansfield Esther 
Mansfield Samuel 
Mansfield Margaret 
Mix Joseph 
Mix Mary 
Mix Jonathan 
Mix John 
Mix Ann 
Mix John 
Mix Esther 
Mix John 
Mix John 
Mix Elizabeth 
Mix Caleb 
Mix Rebecca 
Mix Thomas 
Mix Thomas 
Mix Rebecca 
Mix Hannah 
^lix Caleb 
Jlix Samuel 



Mix William 
Mix Abigail 
Mix Samuel 
Mix Rebecca 
Mix Elizabeth 
Mix Lois 

Mix John and Children 
Mix Stephen 
Mix Mary 
Mix Nathaniel 
Mix Rebecca 
Mix Nathaniel 
Mix Stephen 
Mix Jabez 
Mix Anna 
Mix Nathaniel 
Mix Martha 
Minot James 
Minot Rebecca 
Moss Mary 
Moss Sarah 
Morris John 
Morris Hannah 
Merriman Sally 
Meloy Edward 
Miller John 
Meigs Julia 
Mather Increase 
Mulford Mary 
McCrackan John 
Mattocks John 
McClieve 3Iaria 
McClieve Polly 
McClieve Miles 
Mitchel John 
More Thomas 

Nash John 
Niles Elizabeth 

Osborn Joseph 
Osborn Rebecca 
Osborn Elizabeth 
Osborn Joseph 

Pinto Thankful 
Pinto Mariam M. 
Pinto Abigail 
Parmalee Hezekiah 
Parmalee Elias 
Parmalee Jeremiah 
Parmalee Abigail 
Parmalee William 



Phipps Roger D, 
Phipps Mary 
Phipps Hannah 
Phipps Elizabeth 
Phipps Phoebe 
Phipps Roger D. 
Peck Rebecca 
Peck William 
Peck Stephen 
Peck Elisha 
Peck James 
Peck Francis S. 
Potter Benjamip 
Potter Samuel 
Potter Joseph 
Potter Phoebe 
Potter John 
Potter John 
Prindle Martha 
Prindle Martha 
Prindle Ruth 
Prout John 
Prout John and Wife 
Pomeroy Joseph 
Pardee William 
Parkman Rebecca 
Pitkin Eunice 
Pierson David 
Perkins Ruth 
Payn John 
Pynchon John 

Rice Mary-Ann 
Rice James 
Rice Aaron 
Rakebrant Rhoda 
Ruggles Elizabeth 
Rockwell John 
Riley Ebenezer 
Russel Lucy 
Rutherford John and ) 
Children \ 

Rhodes and 

Children 

Storer Electa 
Storer John 
Storer Samuel 
Storer Nathaniel 
Storer John, jr. 
Storer Sarah 
Smith James 
Smith Eunice 



^9 



Sperry Daniel 
Spen y William 
Spen y Patience 

Sperry 

Si)eny Joseph 
Sperry Deborah 
Spetry Stephen 
Sperry Lydia 
Sherman Daniel 
Sherman Natlianiel 
Sherman Rebecca 
Sherma'^. Gold 
Sherman Daniel 
Sherman John 
Sherwood Andrew M. 
tSioan John P. 
Sabin Hezekiah 
Sabin Mercy 
Sabin Sybbil 
Stacy Joseph 
SearJ Sarah 
Stevens jV. 
Sinclair Elizabeth 
Sackit John 
Sandeman George 
Scott William 
Sweetland Joseph 
Stilhvell Elizabeth 
Saltonstall Elizabeth 



Todd 
Todd 
Todd 
Todd 
Todd 
Todd 
Todd 
Todd 
Thoin 
Thorn 
Thorn 
Thom 
Thorn 



Jonah 
Daniel 
Charles 
Mary 
Michael 
Eunice 
Eunice II. 
Joseph 
pson Daniel 
))son Rebecca 
pson Abraham 
pson Mary 
pson Jos;-;th 



Thompson John 
Thompson Stejjhon 
Tliumpson Biiujaniin 
Thompson Jacob ^ ) 
Children ^ 
Thompson Elizab^lii 
Tlioinpson Isaac 
Tliompso.i .'\brahani 
Thompson Lu!ia 
Tl'.ompson Ph. the 
Thomjison Andrew 
Thomjison Sarali 
Trowbridge Lydia 
Trowbrid-;;-' Doicas 
Tro>vbr!dge Joseph 
Trowbridge Joseph C. 
Tal!nadi;e Clizabeth 
Talmadge Josiah 
Talmadge P'larv 
Talniadge Thaddens 
Tahnadge Wiliiam 
Talmad-e llanni.h 
Talmadge Esther 
Town send Jeremiah 
Townsend Catharine 
Tov.nsend Woodbriugf 
Townsend Abigail 
Townsend Hannah 
Townsend Vrillis 
Townsend Eunice 
Townsend Rebecca 
Tattle Eunice 
TulUe Rebecca 
Tuttle T!iomas 
Tattle Marv 
Tattle Abi'iail 
Tuttle Caleb 
Thomas Joseph 
Tliomas Jehial 
Thomas Elizabeth 
Totten Gnice 
Tappc-a Jolui 
Tolles Hesuy 



Turner Nathaniel 
Turnei' Ann" 

"VVbite Hannah 
AViiitc Hannah 
"White Hannah 
AVhite Eiislia 
V.'hite Hannah 
^' liiie Susannah 
Wlwte John 
Wliite Phineas 
AViiite Amos 
Wi'isrun John 
^V!il:■f.);: i'dizaheth 
^Vl•!st(>ii Fi'dizabeth 
WiliiM)' ^V'illiam 
\Viimot Sarah 
AVhuing i'liphalet 
"Whitiiv; Mary 
^V■ard Sarah C. 

AVard -: 

Weiincve George A. 
"^Voodhoure Josiah 
'W'^aicGtt Timotiiy 
Well;. Da\ id 
"\VaI];ice James G. 
"Wlurtlir^i-y Charles 
Vvoo.lhnil Rebecca A. 
"WoDLln'irilhoda 
^Vorr:<il ?.lary 
"Wooden Mary 
AV'.irland Rebecca T. 
^V hitman Isaiah 
AVoo -ter Mary 
"NVoodbricTge Mabel 

Vorle Henry 
'\oiK.j Aj)n 
"luike iJtnry 
Ya'.eJohn 
YaJv Aatlianie'l 



3iQ 



Names of First Purchasers of Family Lots 

IN THE NEW BURYING-GROUND. 

[d^JVumfccrs of Lois omilled, are unsold.] 



FIRST TIER. 

1 United Society 

2 John Gemmil 

S Samuel Munson 

4 Eiisha Mix 

5 Stephen Hotchkiss 

6 Edward Granniss 

7 Elizur Gjodrich 

3 Benjamin Granniss 

9 Hezekiah Hotchkiss 

10 Daggett k, Chidsey 

11 Daniel Bishop 

1£ Punderson & Ca- } 
leb Hotchkiss ^ 

13 Silas and Eleazer ? 

Hotchkiss ) 

14 Ezekiel Hays 

15 Obadiah Hotchkiss 

16 Widow Atwater 

17 Eli Hotchkiss 

18 Jonah Hotchkiss 

19 Jonah and Justus 

Hotchkiss 

20 Charles Bostwick 

21 Hezekiah Augur 

22 John Davis 

23 Benj. Bragg and 
Saml. Haughton 

24 Abner Kirby 

25 Daniel Crocker fc 
William Austin 



26 Ebenezer Parmelee 

27 Stephen Dummer 
2S Miles Gorham 

29 Abraham Dummer 

30 John Chandler 

31 John P. Stillman 
82 Ashbel Stillman 

33 Samuel Bishop, jr. 

34 Daniel Collins 
J35 John Scott 

36 Timothy k, Wil- ? 
Ham Gilbert ^ 

37 Darius Higgins 

38 David Gilbert 

39 Ezra Lines 

40 Bishop Dodd and > 
Widow Dwight ^ 

41 Lent Bishop 

42 Miles Hotchkiss 



43 Abrm. Bradley, jr. 

44 John Babcock 

45 Stephen Ball 

46 J. Mattoon & others 

47 Joel Atwater 

48 Alson B. Crane 

49 Isaac Thomas 

50 Samuel A. Foot 

51 Eldad Gilbert 

52 Vvllliam Babcock 

53 Solomon Phipps 

54 James Parker &, ) 
CL Noding ^ 

55 Ebenezer Peck 

56 Zechariah Reed 

57 Rutherford Trow- 

bridge 

58 Benjamin Lewis 

59 Newman Trow- 

bridge 

60 Nathaniel S. Lewis 

61 Ezekiel W. Morse 

62 Lent Bishop 

63 John Beecher 

64 Amaziah Lucas 

65 Rhoda Pierpont 

SECOND TIER, 

1 Episcopal Society 

2 Bela Hubbard 

3 Jonathan Ingersoll 

4 Jeremiah Atwater, 2d 

5 Gilbert Token 

6 Joseph Mix 

7 John Miller 

8 John Mix 

9 Jonathan Mix 

10 Elias Shipman 

11 Elias Shipman 

12 Isaac Tomlinson 

13 Russell Clark 

14 D. Collis 

15 Isaac Mills 

16 Daniel Read 

17 Peleg Sanford 

18 Levi Ives 

19 Timothy Phelps 

20 Joseph Peck 

21 Samuel Broome 

22 Deodate Mix 



23 Jeremiah Piatt > 
Eli Whitney $ 

24 Henry Daggett, jr. 

25 Henry Daggett 

26 Ward Atwater 

27 David Daggett 

28 Ehsha Munson 
26 Samuel Bishop 

SO Dyer White and ? 
John Barker S 

31 Joseph Bradley 

32 Richard Cutler 

33 Mary Hillhouse 

34 Elizabeth M. Fitch 

35 James Hilihouse 

36 John Brainard 

37 James Hillhouse 

38 Josiah B. Morse 

39 Frederick Hunt 

40 John Heyliger 

41 John NicoU 

42 AmosTDoolittle 

43 Joseph Drake 

44 David Phipps 

45 Joseph Darling 

46 Joseph Gorham 

47 Samuel Darling 

48 Robert & Daniel | 
i>rov/n > 

49 Benjamin Brown 

50 William Brown 

51 Anthony P. San- i 
ford and Pelatiah I 
W. Perit S 

.52 Ebenezer Huggins 

53 Walter Budington 

54 Saml. Huggins U ) 

Son < 

55 Catharine Wales / 
and S. P. Staples S 

.56 Saml. B. Marshall 

57 William Howel 

58 Nathaniel Spencer 

59 Hezekiah Frith 

60 John Miles 

61 Wm. Fairchild k, } 
Joseph Lynde ^ 

62 Eunice Goodrich 

63 JoLiuna Bonticou 



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TfflRD TIER. 

I Yale College 

£ Timothy Dwight 
9 Josiah Meigs 

4 Pierpont Edwards 

5 Thomas Punderson 

6 Stephen Ailing 

7 Nathaniel Fitch 

8 Thomas Atwater 

9 William Mmison 

10 Titus Street 

I I Jos. Hull 

12 Eben and Robert^ 
Townsend ^ 

13 John Townsend 

14 I. &, K. Townsend 

15 Isaac Townsend 

16 Eneas Monson, ^ 
John Spalding, fc \ 
Elijah Monson j 

17 Timothy White 

18 Thaddeus Beecher 

19 Anna Smith 

20 Jeremiah Atwater 

21 Stephen k Jere- > 
miah Atwater ^ 

22 Nathan Beers 

23 Jeremiah Towns- 

end, 2d 

24 Elias Beers 

25 John Pierpont ■ 

26 Isaac Beers 

27 Elias Stillwell 

23 Elizabeth Wooster 
29 James Gilbert 

50 Simeon Baldwin 

51 James Prescott 

32 Roger Sherman 

33 Benjamin Prescott 

54 Daniel Barnes 

55 Justus Butier 

36 Elijah Thompson 

37 T. Green & Son 

38 David Bunce 

39 Noah Wheadon 

40 Mary Wooster 

41 William Stanley 

42 A. BurrittStJ.H. ? 
Jacocks ^ 

43 Thomas Townsend 

44 Austin Denison 

45 John Rowe 

46 H. Davis 



47 William Thompson 

48 N. Hubbard 

40 Wm. Sherman, 2d 

50 Abel Denison 

51 Martha Whiting 
Sa Caleb Brintnall 

53 Gad Peck 

54 Jehiel Forbes 

55 Charles Denison 
5G Noah Webster 

57 Benjamin Beecher 

58 Nathan Smith 

59 Archibald Rice & ) 
E. Thonapson ^ 

FOURTH TIER. 

1 First Society 

2 James Dana 

3 Samuel Cook 

4 Silas Merriman 

5 Simeon Jocelin 

6 Israel Munson 

7 Henry &, John Peck 

8 Ezra Ford 

9 Stephen Herrick & } 

Parsons Clark ^ 

10 Abel Buel 

11 John Cook 

12 Elisha Dickerman 

13 .loseph Nichol 

14 John Scott and ) 
Thos. Bird ^ 

1 5 John Swathel 

16 Wm. MeCrackan 

17 John Miles, 2d 

18 David and Linus 7 
Kimberly ^ 

19 Abner Tuttle 

20 Timothy Fowler 

21 Timothy Atwater 

22 Asahel Tuttle 

23 Samuel Sackett 

24 Francis Brown 

25 Amos Hill 

26 Daniel Truman 

27 Ebenczer Johnson 
23 Major Lines 

29 William Dougal 

30 Chauncy Ailing 
SI E. Forbes 

32 William Matthews 
S3 Bethel Tuttle and ) 
E. Hopkinson ^ 
34 J. Thompson's heirs 



35 M. S. Northrop &. 
I. S. Bird 

36 Glover Mansfield 

37 P. Johnson and ) 
Jno. Keneda S 



38 Abraham Keneda 

39 J. M. Hall k others 

40 Silas Ailing 

41 E. Parmelee and } 
Mary Noyes y 

42 Lewis h Asa Ailing 

43 Asa Morgan and ^ 
Saml. Hughes ^ 

44 A. Parrel 1 

45 Eli Osborn 

46 A. Langmuir Si ^ 
Walter Brown \ 

47 E. W. Collins Si ( 
David Ray ^ 

48 Wm. H. Elliot h <> 
Reuben Rice ^ 

49 Joseph Thompson 

50 Isaac Gilbert 

51 John Hoadley 

52 Jonathan E. Portei- 

53 Willet Bradley 

54 E. French 

55 Laban Smith 

56 Eli Mix and others 

57 John Bradley 

FIFTH TIER. 

First block unsold. 

7 Joseph Brunily 

8 Hannah Sibley 

9 William Robert;? 

10 N. Harrison &, S. I 
Howel's heirs \, 

11 William and S.}' 
Thompson ^ 

12 And'w Bartholomew 

13 S. Trowbridge k. 

14 R. Dickenson &, 
A. Coburn 

1 5 Moses Bartholomew 

16 J. Pardee k. 

17 John Clause 

18 L. Hawley fc G. 
Harrison 

19 Wm. W. Burwell) 
k. Eli Baldwin I 

20 Giles Cooper 

21 Georec Peckham 



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5i2 Henry Hartlv and 
others 

23 Samuel Burnett 

24 Lois Davis ;iml ) 
Saml. P. Davis I 

25 James Hilllioiise 

26 Benj.English'sliGirs 



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William Sperry 
Joshua New h nil 
Benj. Prime aud 1 
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ley ) 

Lemuel Carrirt;toii 
Wm. Wise iA Ez- ^ 
ra Tuttle ^ 

Wm. S. JariTian 
Henry Denisua 
S. Gorham 
Lucy Howell 
Aner Bradley 
William Myers 
Mary Ward and ^ 
Elihu Spear ^ 
S. Wilmot, jr. 
Rebecca Candee 
Elias Ailing 
Edmund Smith 
Ezra Baine-s 
C. Darrow Si A. ? 
Bassett <, 

Elisha IIul! and ? 
John Hcatoii ^ 



SIXTH TIEK. 

Unsold. 

SEVENTH TIER. 

I Jeremiah At water 
S-'Neliem. Carrin.^ton 
5 James Cliaplin k. } 

Josep!) A. Bishop ^ 
D. B. Spencer 
7 Samuel P. Davis 
;{ Levi Stilhuaa 
tl S. Bassett 
10 Thomas KoMel 

II Hanover Barney 
1 '2 John Babcotl; " 



13 S. Ga!]vji and ) 
Sam!. Gilbert S 
It T"{ervey Sanford 
(5 Giover ?tlan,'-fiei(! 

16 Eliliu Sanf^nd 

17 John, S. I;!;;d!pv 



Gill)ert ) 
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lo .1. Brown and D 
Norrie 

19 Benj. W. Bakewell 
iO Norm ail Hay den 

22 Stepb.. Trowbridge 

23 Elijali G 
Safiy L 

24 D. Trowbridge 
2G iVathaniel F. Clark 
2i) Sidney Hull 

31 J. R. Gore and ? 
Wm. Creighton ^ 

32 Tiino-thy Dwight 

33 Daniel Salter 

EHHITH TIER. 

2 Dccius Wadsworth 
4 Benjamin Silliman 
Rev. J. Morsie and 

Family 
7 L. ChatfieUI 
{i (,'barles Bacon 

9 James Atwater 

10 Solomon Collis 

H Elislia Boardman 

12 James Goodrich 

13 Nathaniel Bacon 

14 George Iloadley 

15 Wm. Sherman, jr. 

16 C'apt. A. k. Jared 
Bradley 

17 Harry CroswcU 
13 S. Converse 

20 N. W. Tavlor 
20 Elam Hull 

31 James Brewster 



NINTH TIER. 
! D. C. Deforest 
3 D. C. Deforest 

I Lisle Loyd 

5 David Humphreys 

7 A. Heaton 

8 AViiliam Gorham 

n Jo'-eph Bennett 
10 Jesse atid Abner 
Ailing 

II Normand Dexter 
12 Lydia Ailing 

[ 14 Henry Gruenert 
I ! 7 J Old Root 

10 S.J. Hitrheoek 
I 20 Br'nj. Thompsf)ii 



26 Nancy Holland 
28 J. M.'lloggans k 
Aner Thomas 

30 Nathaniel Lvon 



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TENTH TIER. 

3 C. Goodell fc J. 

Osborn 

4 Jeremiah Thomas 

6 Richard B. Law 

7 Charles Robinson 
12 Jno. Hitchcock & 

T. Sperry 



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13 Wm, Mansfield 

14 Gilead Ailing k, 
Betsey Pardee 

25 Lois Peck 
20 Elijah Tripp and 
Wm. Orshall 

27 Tbeo. Ailing 

28 R. Corey k S. Peck 

29 Jacob Whiting 
SO Siierman Blair 

31 Nathan Thomas 

32 T. Gorham &t Al- } 
ling Brown \ 

33 J. Bell & Wm. Way 

34 Caleb Miller and / 
C. Bradley ^ 

35 Ira Atwater 

36 J. Hempsted and 
W. Bills 

37 J. Hood k H. H. } 
Forbes ^ 

38 Saml. and John } 
Graham $ 



ELEVENTH TIER. 

First Mock uiisold. 

I 3 Erastus Bradley 

4 F. C. Bassett 

5 Sylvester Jones 

6 Timothy Ailing 

7 John H. Anthony 

8 Glover Mansfield 
13 Kelly Smith and } 

B. F. Heald S 

15 Marcus Russell 



TAVELFTH TIER. 

1 TJri Tuttle 

2 Miles Sperry k Eli i 

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THE COMMOX MONUMENT LV RE4R OF THE CE.\TRt: 

CHURCH 




From the settlement of New-Haven, 

1638, to 1795, 

the adjoining Ground was Qccapted 

fis a eommon place of hurial. 

Then a newburying-ground was opened. 

and divided into Family Lots 

and city squares. 

In 1813, this Church was placed 

over the Monuments of several, 

whose names are engraved on Tablets 

in the Vestibule, 

In 1821, the remaining Monuments 
were, by consent of survivors, 
and under direction of the city, 1 
Removed to the new ground. 

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the 
last trump, the dead shall be raised. 



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